Development of Missouri Reference Wetlands

Start Date: 2013

End Date: 2017

Full Citation:

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, 2013-2017, $303,568. Development of Missouri Reference Wetlands. PI: D. Huggins, CoPI: J. Kastens.

Category:

  • Aquatic

Associated with the KU Field Station: No

Research Summary:

The objectives of this project were to:

  1. Identify candidate reference wetlands in Missouri using existing landscape-level data, and begin development of a quantitative, scientifically defensible method to determine candidate reference site conditions in Missouri wetlands. Geographic location of the wetlands was restricted to: The Western Corn Belt Plains, Central Irregular Plains, and Interior River Lowland ecoregions; and Missouri River floodplain and confluences of major tributaries associated with the above ecoregions.
  2. Conduct on-site water quality and biological sampling. We sampled wetlands in Missouri during the summers of 2015 and 2016 and examined water quality, plants, and macroinvertebrates.
  3. Validate reference site methodology and selection using water quality and biological data.

See KBS Report 192 for results: Huggins, D., J. Kastens, D. Baker, and C. Freeman. 2017. Development of Missouri Reference Wetlands. Kansas Biological Survey Open-file Report No. 192. 47 pp.